Governor wants ACB probe into Jodhpur cop university hirings

JODHPUR: One of the three police universities in the country, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice in Jodhpur is in the news for the wrong reasons. Charges of financial corruption and favoritism in recruitment have constantly pushed the institute in the news rather than for its academic feats.
After the removal of the then financial controller (FC) on charges of misappropriation, the governor has written to the ACB for initiating an inquiry into allegations of recruitment of the deputy registrar and controller of examinations.
Both of these recruitments had taken place in 2013 by twisting the eligibility criteria for selection in an arbitrary manner.
“Governor has written to the ACB for initiating an inquiry into the allegations,” a source from the governor office said. TOI has accessed the documents, pointing to these allegations, after the intervention of the governor in the matter. Sources said the governor had sought explanations from the university regarding these allegations, failing which the letter was written to the ACB.
Documents suggest that the eligibility criteria for the post of controller of examinations had neither the qualifications nor he had the qualification to hold his previous position as associate professor. With masters in media management, he had obtained his PhD from Jodhpur National University, which was shut for distributing 25,003 fake degrees, which are under scrutiny.
Similarly, eligibility criteria of deputy registrar were also interpreted arbitrarily to recruit her for the post with previous position of HR manager in a private college. Interestingly, her job and PhD progressed simultaneously.
Former minister Nathu Singh Gurjar had also written to then CM Vasundhara Raje in February 2014 questioning the entire recruitment process and its timing. Interestingly, based on the similar allegations by an RTI activist, an inquiry was conducted by the deputy registrar herself in the capacity of the registrar before she completed two years of probation giving clean-chit.
With no permanent VC since 2015, the university has been run arbitrarily for last five years.